• dmention7@lemm.ee
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    5 months ago

    Aw heck, I’ll take the downvotes…

    /taps head

    Can’t be responsible for a global IT shutdown when you’re only a couple percent of the user base!

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        Nuh-uh, I saw a Steam survey that said that less than two percent of computers use Linux!

        What do you mean by “the headless internet backbone servers, Android phones, and smart appliances don’t have Steam”?

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          The latest steam survey says 2.08% use Linux.

          That’s more than 2%, I bet you feel pretty ridiculous now!

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            The absolute ridicule! I’m sorry, but I might not survive this! How could this come to be?!

            Dying orangutan meme .jpeg

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      Yup my personal and work machines were fine. That said I’m on W10 on both and once I can’t be on W10 anymore I’m hoping Linux has further matured for my needs so I don’t need W11 onwards. I’m around the Linux communities keeping tabs…!

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        Isn’t Linux mature already? What do you want from it that it can’t already do?

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            Nvidia doesn’t let Linux to have good drivers. They go out of their way to not let to write completely opensource drivers.

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    It’s only funny because it’s a blue screen(a very windows thing). Imagine what this will be like when a game inevitably pushes a bad kernel level anti cheat update.

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      When such day comes, I hope prolitariat gamers will unite and push back against kernel-level bullshit

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          I doubt that gamers rising up and voting for Trump. Unless US political system is SO fucked. In EU upset gamers are most likely to vote for Pirate Party.

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        I think a lot of people will have a bad day. Some will swear off PC gaming altogether and switch to console, others might look towards Linux thanks to a friend or a helpful individual online, and a small minority will understand the problem and actively avoid the companies that caused the problem.

        It probably won’t affect sales of the company involved too much sadly unless everyone point their fingers at the company in the news.

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    Does windows not have any reliable filesystem snapshot capabilities? Because as soon as I learned about this whole thing my first thought was just that it would be easy to fix just rollback to the snapshot before the update

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          Wait did they not stop serving the broken release to clients even after they realized the problem? I guess I wouldn’t be surprised but wow that’s worse than I expected

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            The fault was a driver, so if the faulty driver loaded at boot the machine would bsod again. If the machine got network before the driver loaded there was a chance that it could download and install the fixed driver